[link=http://www.swtor.com/news/article/20090213_001]New Planet[/link] announced

We?re thrilled to announce the next playable planet in Star Wars?: The Old Republic?, the Hutt homeworld known in The Old Republic timeframe as Hutta. Nowhere in Star Wars? lore has Hutta been so richly realized, and players will be able to explore the first true interactive realization of the ?Glorious Jewel?.

Read more about Hutta and its rich history including the long standing tension between the rebellious Evocii natives and the greedy, power-hungry Hutt Empire.

View the concepts of Hutta?s harsh, polluted environments and see how the development team brought Hutta to life in these screenshots.

True, but it is still an MMO - interaction with people is the fun of it. Unless they intend to segregate the 'chat' planets and 'action' planets. Which will probably happen, but as areas on planets, I guess.

I assume it'll be free-form, but there tend to be various 'mystic' ways of keeping stronger characters out of areas in MMO's, methinks.

Well, PvP will be in it. And as I said elswhere, how do you want all the guilds and powerplayers to become "storyplayers". Actually they would leave and it would terribly fail. They will take the usuall approach, that worked perfectly fine as a business model before: There will be a Roleplaying Server and five "usual" servers, as it is always. And people will wish to mess with others, make their own story and see how they do against other players. PvP is the fun of MMOs.

I think the idea we get a KOTOR III, with a monthly fee is an illusion. We actually get an MMO.

And PVP is the fun of MMOs, no doubt. So, it will all come down to the question if they can find a satisfying solution to the "Cantina-problem"

No, I'm sure there's going to be more than one playable race. There better be!

Oh good.

See, I'm the type of person in a MMO (or even in customizable games, like Oblivion Or Dragon Age), if there's the option to NOT play as a human, I'll take it. (I had like... 5-6 Casts and Newmans back in the days of Phantasy Star Online) So... yay! I think.

One question for the discussion who is this guy? Frankly his look just freaks me out but I am also wondering if there is any more pictures of him so I can start scuplting the armor. He look a lot like Darth Malak but I'm sure that it's not Malak but a mystery to me who he is.

Hey guys, I've never played MMOs like World of Warcraft (to be honest, I made fun to those people who burn their brains 24/7 with MMOs....In addition, the only RPG I've ever played is KOTOR 2, 6 years ago.....

Can someone explain in simple words, what is a Massive Multiplayer Online RPG? Will I be able to play the game on my own if I want to? And in what scale does the interaction of other people affect my game.

For example, if i have to interact with other people in secondary or optional parts of the game, then its ok. But what if these parts are necessary and important for the game?

And does anybody know if the battle system is similar to KOTOR?

Finally, will I have to pay any extra subscriptions or fees to play the game?

Can someone explain in simple words, what is a Massive Multiplayer Online RPG? Will I be able to play the game on my own if I want to? And in what scale does the interaction of other people affect my game.

It varies from game to game. For instance, you can do 90% of SWG by yourself, it just isn't as fun as playing with other people. And the remaining 10% is usually really good stuff that's worth hunting up some friends for. But it is possible to go through entire game without speaking to a single soul, yes. I wouldn't recommend it. At all. But you can do it.

For example, if i have to interact with other people in secondary or optional parts of the game, then its ok. But what if these parts are necessary and important for the game?

Then you don't do them, of course. But really, if you're going to play an MMO, you're going to interact with people. You can't help it. You're going to find yourself a guild, and they're going to help you out.

I just watched the combat mechanics video documentary on TOR website. Must say that the game is looking pretty cool. I don't know if they're going to be able to get away from some of the most fundamental aspects of MMO combat but I think their take on it is intriguing. I am liking the Republic Trooper class a lot more after watching the video.

1, does anyone know the PC system requirements for this game? I figure it's still to early to tell, but if anyone knows, please let me know. Cause I'm pretty sure I'm gonna have to get a new PC to play this game anyways. But if I'm gonna spend my money, I want to make sure I buy the right PC with all the system requirements to play this game.

2, for the Jedi/Sith classes, does anyone know if we'll be able to customize our lightsaber hilts? And will we also be able to dual wield and use double-bladed lightsabers?

3, Are there anymore playable races other then humans? If so, do you know what they are?